Re:Boosting Sales with Machine Learning
by denzil_correa on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @10:47AM
(#11862579)
> Is it typical that ~2000 samples (1000 leads, 1000 non-leads) is "enough"?
In terms of practical machine learning, plotting learning curves are a great way to know if samples are "enough" [0, 1]. If your algorithm under fits (high bias) both errors (training and validation) will be high and in this case, adding training samples would not help.
In terms of practical machine learning, plotting learning curves are a great way to know if samples are "enough" [0, 1]. If your algorithm under fits (high bias) both errors (training and validation) will be high and in this case, adding training samples would not help.
[0] http://www.astroml.org/sklearn_tutorial/practical.html
[1] http://blog.fliptop.com/blog/2015/03/02/bias-variance-and-ov...